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Date Posted: Saturday, January 12, 08:42:47am
this is a true story and one sentence that was spoken to me says it all loud and clear...
I have a story that can explain this...
In 1985 I went to the United States to open the first Tim Horton franchise in Tonawanda, New York. I was working down there for months... sneaking across the border because the idiot owner of the franchise said he was having trouble getting my work permit. One time I was crossing from canada into the states and the border guard ran my plate. he said, "How long have you been working for Tim Horton's?" I was surprised but I said, "About five years." He said, "No, I mean how long have you been working at Tim Horton's in Tonawanda?" I didn't even know they knew I was there. I told him I wasn't working there that I was working at Horton's in Hamilton, Ontario. "Yeah, why don't you park your car over there and come inside for a minute."
Inside I stumbled through it and then asked if I could call Horton's. The freaking owner shows up at the customs and immigration office wearing his white bakers uniform for God's sake. He says, "We're going to tell the truth about lying." I said, "Did you get this idea froma lawyer?" No. So the idiot tells the freaking JUSTICE DE#PARTMENT that we've been lying and sneaking me across the border for months but that my job was important to the livelyhood of about 2 dozen Americans..... Ok, now the head guy looks at me and says, "Son, I'm going to tell you a story.
"Back when I was working the booth out there, a Canadian... young guy with a girl in the car, comes to my booth. I said, whats your reaso for entering the United States? What possessed him to say it is beyond me but he says, "I'm going to shoot the president." I said, excuse me? He says, "I'm going to shoot the president." I asked why and he says because of what he's done to the Canadian economy. Now I know the guy was showing off but we brought him inside for a chat. We planned to give him shit then send him back to Canada but for some reason someone ran his name. Five years early it turns out he'd been arrested on a weapons charge in Alberta. The book says when the president's life is threatened, you call the Secret Service. The kid sat in a chair for three hours while the Secret Service came down from Albany. he spent four years in prison."
Then the guy leaned across the desk and looked me right in the eye and said, "YOU NEVER EVER LIE TO THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT."
Nuff said. Marion Jones didn't get taken away from her kids because she took steriods and cheated or even because she stole medals and endorsement money. she is going to prision because check fraud is illegal and lying to Congress is illegal.
these athletes need to grow up. Their real problems are they don't stay in school long enough to know whats right and wrong.
No athlete should be allowed to sign any contract or play a professional sport or recieve any money.. for playing or for endorsing products until they graduate from college.
I look at lebron james going to the NBA right out of high school and I'm thinking down the road something bad is gonna happen.
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